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This does seem like a pretty big problem — summer Olympics in LA 2028, while Trump is still president? Will no one be allowed to compete except Boer farmers?

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There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

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The degree to which people romanticize farming is inversely proportional to their degree of actual proximity to farming and farmers This is basically a mathematical law

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The official Democratic Congressional Campaign twitter account isn't mincing words

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In 2015-16 it seemed like there really were a lot of 65-year old men yearning for a societal return to the factory jobs they had in the 20th century but they’re all long-retired now and Gen Z wants nothing to do with those kinds of jobs.

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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

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i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

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Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

at the risk of lawyer-braining too hard....Justice Jackson's dissent in this teacher development grant case is fuckin' brutal it's like, 17 footnoted pages of 'I just think it's funny how' and calling the majority everything but a child of God www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

It's been a fascinating experiment to see what would happen if we put the stupidest man alive back into the oval office, but I think we have enough data to draw our conclusions now and should probably move on to the next thing

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RENMAC: “.. Trump believes he was spared an assassin's bullet to do this. .. I would not expect Trump to be the one to deescalate because he does not believe in trading with other countries. His heart is not in that. It really is that simple.” @sherwood.news sherwood.news/markets/stoc...

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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

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This was 156 days ago.

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The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

submitted 4 days ago • 269 comments

"I thought only other people would be hurt." - the epitaph on our national tombstone

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Lotta people who have spent their comfortable, unbothered lives smugly insisting they "Don't do politics" are about to find out politics have no issue doin' them.

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It’s hard to think of a single act by a single human that instantly damaged as many plans, careers, dreams in as many places around the globe For a supreme (and cruel) narcissist, the rush must be exquisite The whole world has no choice but to watch this wretched man

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

All of these firings, layoffs, RIFs, grant cancellations, changes to indirects, “pauses,” censorship of words, all of it is all illegal and completely unnecessary. It’s wanton destruction and I will never forgive Congress for allowing it.

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It is bananas that the president can unilaterally set tax policy in this scale. It’s a quintessentially legislative power. And that Congress would not resist on purely process-based grounds speaks to an utter collapse in institutional pride.

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do you remember five years ago when a decent chunk of the populace was like “hey we should build a society where Black people are not murdered with impunity by police, we should pay nurses more, and we should care for our sick?” This is the punishment for having dared to think those things

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Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

deals are being made every day

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Restoration Hardware was doing an earnings call when the tariffs hit and I have never related harder to a CEO www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

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“In this economy?” jokes?? In this economy?

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proposal to amend the constitution to include a legislative branch. we could call it, say, a congress

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"He has raised your taxes and now he wants to cut his" is pretty simple messaging that even Chuck Schumer should be able to deliver.

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there have been three major economic collapses in my adult lifetime and guess which party has been in charge each time? it's almost like their policies don't work.

submitted 5 days ago • 150 comments

Dude was not kidding about the 1890s. Imperialism. Tariffs. Measles. Child labor. Coal.

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New York Stock Exchange stuns in new photo before complete and utter collapse

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Wall Street analyst: “We went from an almost ideal market environment over the past year or two, to complete and utter destruction of our system of trade that had benefited America greatly with lower prices.”

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Ugh this should be so easy, it’s not even like there’s a “good for the economy but morally evil” party and a “bad for the economy but morally good” party, there’s one party that’s like “minorities belong in cages AND we want you to be poorer” and they win elections somehow

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

I struggled for a historical example yesterday. Brexit seems closest but more contained. Cultural Revolution was from a lower level of base state capacity.

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Trump is just getting started. Deliberate layoffs to government workers + Tariffs —> Recession —> Private sector layoffs —> Deep recession.

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I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

submitted 5 days ago • 2542 comments

America just did a Brexit, didn't it.

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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

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30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

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Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.

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What's an appropriate analogy for a state voluntarily dismantling its own state capacity and wider societal scientific capability, absent being defeated in war? China didn't have much state capacity during the Cultural Revolution so that doesn't feel quite right.

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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

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If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?

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I've thought about this article every day of this goddamn administration

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American Greed is the last shared value.

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poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars

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A side point I suppose but this just massively increases all the uncertainty, even if - or especially if - other countries call the bluff and Trump backs down. He can now cut like 80 different deals that vary literally day to day ! It’s truly madness.

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